Worship

Notes on the Notes – October 23, 2016

This week’s theme: Who are You? This week’s scripture readings: Joel 2:23-32                    Luke 18:9-14 This week’s music: “Come, Now is the Time to Worship” “Come, now is the time to worship, Come, now is the time to give your heart. Come, just as you are, to worship, Come, just as you are, before your God.  […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 16, 2016

This week’s theme: Keeping Faith This week’s scripture readings: Jeremiah 31:27-34       2 Timothy 3:14-4:5      Luke 18:1-8 This week’s music: “God of the Bible” (MV #28)  “God of the Bible, God in the Gospel, Hope seen in Jesus, hope yet to come, You are our centre, daylight or darkness, freedom or prison, you are our home. […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 9, 2016

This week’s theme: What is Thankfulness? This week’s scripture readings: Deuteronomy 26:1-11              John 6:25-35 This week’s music: “As Those of Old Their First-fruits Brought” (VU #518) We open our worship today with this Thanksgiving hymn, from Ten New Stewardship Hymns (1961) by Frank von Christierson.  The tune, FOREST GREEN, […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 2, 2016

This week’s theme:  World-Wide Communion “Would You Eat This Bread?” This week’s scripture readings: Lamentations 1:1-6 and 3:19-26              Luke 17:5-10 This week’s music: “All Who Hunger” (VU #460) Born in 1955, Sylvia Dunstan attributes her love of song to her grandparents, who kept song alive in the family and entrusted Sylvia’s formal musical education to […]

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Notes on the Notes – September 25, 2016

This week’s theme: I Can’t Even Imagine! This week’s scripture readings: 1 Tim. 6:6-19                Luke 16:19-31 This week’s music: “All Things Bright and Beautiful” (VU #296) This beloved text, from Cecil Frances Alexander’s Hymns for Little Children (1846), is based on the phrase “Maker of heaven and earth” in the Apostles’ Creed. The new […]

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